Lizards and Rats and Mice - Oh My!

And not to mention, big flat brown spiders that move very quickly.  The Bible tells us not to fear because He is with us always.  I am not sure if that was God's presence that I felt when the mouse ran between my feet, or when the rat ran up the wall right beside me or when the lizard came running right at me....or if it was just complete and total terror!  I have to laugh at all of my experiences with nature since I've been here.  I feel like the Cinderella of Nigeria.

What makes me even more anxious is that my boys love to catch the lizards, mice and rats.  Caleb actually picked up a dead rat and has made many lizards his pet/friend.  My boys also caught a toad, but we think Caleb handled it for too long and so the toad passed on to toad heaven.   So they decided to dissect it.   Needless to say they are having a great time.

Chris and I are getting settled into life in Nigeria.  There are things that we are starting to miss about home.   Things like water pressure and clean shower water.  Knowing we are showering in contaminated water kind of takes away from that just clean feeling.  We also miss having constant electricity.  We have been without electricity for over 14 hours.  We have a generator that we run every few hours.  Our generator will not allow us to run the washing machine/dryer along with everything else used in the house, so doing laundry is a long task.  It has taken me 5 days to do laundry and because we are without power again, I need to wait.  I hung my clothes on a line outside yesterday, which that was kind of fun.  One thing you have to be careful of is making sure the clothes are completely dry before you put them on if you hang them out to dry.  The Toomba fly will lay their eggs in the wet parts of the clothes.  They turn into mango worms.  These mango worms are flesh eating parasites and they will dig into your body.  Strangely, I kept thinking about that while my clothes were drying.   Luckily our power came on for a few hours yesterday for me to put our laundry in the dryer to kill off any worms, etc.

We have also been doing some outreaches, but I will post about those later.  We have to turn off the generator so I am going to loose my internet connection.  We will write more on the spiritual side of things soon.  

We really are glad to be here and we are so thankful for the Lord to allow this awesome opportunity.